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Rowe himself was a true American hero. He requested the opportunity to write the book from the President and then he went off and did it. He was true to his trust until his death ... and like Rocky, he died in service to his country and to those beset by the evils of Communism.

I have always really respected and honored his description of Rocky:

"For that guy, duty, honor, country was a way of life. He was the finest example of an officer I have known. To him it was a matter of liberty or death, the big four and nothing more. There was no other way for him. Once, Rocky told our captors that as long as he was true to God and true to himself, what was waiting for him after this life was far better than anything that could happen now. So he told them that they might as well kill him then and there if the price of his life was getting more from him than name, rank, and serial number.

I’m satisfied that he would have it no other way. I know that he valued that one moment of honor more than he would have a lifetime of compromises."

Hope you and yours are blessed with a joyous holiday season and a prosperius new year.

NICK ROWE’S TRIBUTE TO ROCKY VERSACE

He stood as others dream to stand;
He spoke as others dared not even think;
From soul deep faith, he drew his courage,
his granite spirit, his ironclad will.

The Alien force, applied with hate,
could not break him, failed to bend him;
Though solitary imprisonment gave him no friends,
he drew upon his inner self to create a force so strong
that those who sought to destroy his will, met an army his to command.